synapse wrote:Dude, did you get offended ot something? It's not like you're these companies' owner and we're trolling about them, chill
Then why the reaction? We're all just speculating and I personally don't mind or care if they're the same people or not as long as they keep making good products and care for their customers.
Where did it seem as if I got offended? (Although, while I normally appreciate a good condensing of a quoted post that people could just read further up the thread, your selective quoting of me did somehow make me seem a bit harsher out of context.) I was just questioning Autobot032's blanket statement that Fansproject and Maketoys are the same company (and since you had stated that it made sense, you just happened to be lumped in with my quoted reply).
I've never seen direct evidence of this, just people stating that other, unnamed "persons in the know" have said something to this effect. If someone wants to post a link with definitive proof showing this to be true, fine, I'll believe it. Until then, it is just speculation. And please, speculate away! I don't think they are the same company... but who knows, they could be! If I'm proven wrong, I shall admit to such. But I've yet to see any proof. Just vague statements of, "I know a guy who knows a guy who is in the know and who said this thing, so it must be true!"
But Autobot032 presented it as if it was fact, not speculation, and you agreed with him. Hence my post. I was not offended. My intent was merely point out that (unless someone can prove me wrong, which I shall be happy to accept) this is
not a known truth, just a strong rumor in the fandom. I shall admit that I may find the rumor, in the absence of proof, to be annoying, and if that came across too strongly in my earlier post then I apologize. But offence had not been taken on my end, and was not intended towards yours.
Edit:
Well, out of curiosity, I did a bit of digging on my own via Google. I saw many instances of people discussing the Maketoys is Fansprject rumor, but without it ever being stated as fact. I saw a few people indeed stating it as fact, but with no proof whatsoever. (
This one seemed particularly cheeky.) And in my (admittedly not extensive) search, I found
one example of someone
attempting to name a source for the rumor, but even then it seemed like second hand knowledge that even the person naming it sounded dubious about.
(And if this alleged source's reasoning behind why Fansprojct supposedly created Maktoys is true, seems strange to me that the Menasor we're getting is from Fansproject instead of from Maketoys.)
Granted, I looked for all of about ten or fifteen minutes, so I could have missed something. (The internet is a big place, after all.) But I'd even more then ever need to see some reputable proof to take the whole "Maketoys is Fanspoject" thing as more then rumor.
At most, I'd think they are companies that are friendly, perhaps with Fansproject helping Maketoys out a bit when they were first get started, and perhaps still maintaining communications to assure they don't step on one another with competing projects... but still separate companies.
(Additional edit just to fix a miscoded link.)